At CES, Sotiropoulos will analyze the strategies of governing elites in European contemporary European democracies to control political institutions and counter institutional innovation, resulting in the backsliding of representative democracy.
Event: Bancroft Roundtable: "Counter-institutions are the answer, man!" Multi-Ethnic Publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s.
Counter-institutions were needed to replace those lost to the east, while a new urban orientation had to be given to this disjointed and now isolated part of the city.
Paradoxically, the dismantling of counter-majoritarian institutions was sold to the Hungarian public as changes mandated by the government's super-majoritarian support.
The Senate is by design a counter-majoritarian institution controlled by the same minority of American voters, and can thereby block any majoritarian legislation passed by the House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court is, as political scientists like to say, a counter-majoritarian institution: the President and the members of Congress must answer to the voters; the Justices, who serve for life, answer only to the commands of the Constitution.
By its terms, the president is not necessarily elected by a popular majority, but by a counter-majoritarian institution, the Electoral College, that is now controlled by a minority of the population residing in less-populated rural states.
And why are we measuring the success of what should be a counter-cultural institution by its popularity?
Smuggler, raconteur, and best-selling writer not to mention tireless campaigner for the legalization of cannabis Marks is a counter-cultural institution.
Smuggler, raconteur and best selling writer – not to mention tireless campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis – Marks is a counter-cultural institution.
